Lipids include fats (solid at room temperature) and oils (liquid at room temperature). Lipids are an important part of a healthy diet. The body uses lipids as an energy store, as insulation and to ...

Lipids include fats (solid at room temperature) and oils (liquid at room temperature). Lipids are an important part of a healthy diet. The body uses lipids as an energy store, as insulation and to ...

The hydrophilic head is composed of a choline structure (blue) and a phosphate (orange). This head is connected to a glycerol (green) with two hydrophobic tails (purple) called fatty acids.

Here, we discuss the central role of lipid chaperones — the fatty acid-binding proteins ... Figure 3: Crystal structure of the synthetic A-FABP inhibitor BMS309403 bound to human A-FABP.

[9] The TG component of VLDL also undergoes hydrolysis by capillary LPL to provide fatty acids to adipose and muscle tissue. The remaining lipid portion is called IDL. IDL is then converted to LDL ...

Lipids serve several important physiologic functions ... bile acids are crucial for the absorption of dietary fat in the small intestine. TGs offer an ideal means of energy storage and production ...

Once thought to be little more than blobs of fat inside eukaryotic cells, lipid droplets may in fact provide a first line of defence against invading pathogens, according to evidence published today ...

Currently, her research focuses on pathways of biosynthetic metabolism in the context of fatty liver, diabetes, atherosclerosis, lipids, and neurological disorders.

Nektarios Tavernarakis from the University of Crete explore how tiny fat droplets, known as nuclear lipid droplets (nLDs), accumulate in the nucleus of cells as we age. Unlike regular lipid ...